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Thursday Jun 23, 2022
Thursday Jun 23, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
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One of my favorite stories and its true was back in the early days of hollywood Charlie chaplin was the biggest movie star in hollywood. When he went to vacation in Monte Carlo they had a Charlie Chaplin look alike contest, no one knew he was there, so he entered… and took 3rd place.
If you were going to pick out 2 people who were more diverse and at equally opposite and polar in the spectrum of public opinion one might not have to go much further than Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin. One is known as the smartest man who ever lived and the author of the theory of relativity and the other was at one time the most famous person on the planet due to his black and white slapstick comedy.
Charlie Chaplin hosted Einstein once in Hollywood and he best summed up their differences quite succinctly. He said as we drove around Hollywood California, people would recognize us and they would clap and cheer for Albert because no one understood him, and they would stand and clap and cheer for me because everyone did understand me.
Think of it. One was famous and well paid for being misunderstood, to smart and un-relatable. The other was so obviously comic to the point of being sophomoric and mundane… it was slapstick… no words needed. But they were both the best in class. They both made great impacts in their respected fields at the highest level. They both were paid well and both known through out the world.
You know God can use anyone… you can be so smart you are seemingly untouchable and geeky to the point of people feeling like you are out of touch with reality. Or you could be a muscle bound stud muffin who graces the cover of GQ… it don’t matter to God. He has created YOU with no equal. So just be you… Just be the person who says God how can I be the vest version of who you have created me to be.
You may have heard me say this before and it is aline I have stolen from the book Love medicine and miracles by Dr. Bernie Seilgel. When you die, you will not get up to heaven only to have God ask you why you were not more like so and so movie star, or business person or instagram influencer… God will only want to know why you were not more like the person he created you to be.
Psalm 139:13-14 You alone created my inner being. You knitted me together inside my mother. I will give thanks to you because I have been so amazingly and miraculously made. Your works are miraculous, and my soul is fully aware of this.
Be the masterpiece. God created you as his workmanship is what Ephesians tells us. That word workmanship means masterpiece. Yes it is sad, tragic and evil that abortion has killed- that is murdered 62 million masterpieces… it is horrific and God should destroy our nation because of it… but don’t miss the point- you are a masterpiece - are you just as guilty by not living out your uniqueness and qualities that God has given you. To live and never truly live is the same as being dead your whole life.
Today is the Day to start to live to Gods fullest potential. Its not to late… Colnel sanders was in his late 70’s, Julia childs was in her late 50’s, Nelson Mandela was in prison for 20 plus years… the list goes on and on… Chuck Colson was kicked out of politics, thrown in prison and at a later stage in life became an amazing man of God and won thousands to Christ.
Go do it, go be it, go live it… live for the master as HIS masterpiece.
Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
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Mary Oliver the American poet once wrote:
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Is you life wild? Is it precious? And I don’t mean precious like a flower, but precious like a 4 million dollar perfect grade Michael Jordan autographed rookie card?
The question is begging to be answered… what are you living for and how are you living it?
1 Timothy 6:9–11
"Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, endurance, and gentleness.”
The love of money… not money, but the love of it. I think we could say the love of security, the love of selfish desires, the love of sex, the love of popularity, the love of laziness, the love of… fill in the blank… anything other than the love of God.
Psalm 20:6-8
6Now I know that the LORD saves His anointed; He answers him from His holy heaven with the saving power of His right hand. 7Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God. 8They collapse and fall, but we rise up and stand firm.…
What are you living for and what are you how are you living? Good questions that very rarely are answered honestly.
The question could be asked - and usually is - what are you running after in life?
But I truly believe until we answer the question “what are we running from?” - we will never truly be free to run after what we really need and not just want.
We live in a world like none other at any time. We aren’t just saturated in media, pictures, images, opinions and soap box pundits, we are actually drowning in them.
EVERYONE IS COCK SURE THAT THEY KNOW WHAT YOU SHOULD DO, BE AND PURSUE…
So this is the point of the podcast where I tell you to run after Jesus and all he has for you - ok, sure, yes that is true and really the #1 priority… but thats not where I am going today.
Today I want you to live for and run after making a difference in someones life…
WE are quick to understand time and how it plays out in our life… we understand what time we should get up, how long it takes to shower and get ready, how long it takes to drive to work, how much time to get projects done, how much time our family will require each day and on weekends, how much time we will spend at church, on hobbies, we even make time for working out, shopping and for our lawn…
But how much time have you allotted to pour into someone else’s life?
Be a friend to someone who doesn’t have a father, drop some money off to a single mom, babysit the young couples kids for free so they can get away for a night. Write a note and stick it in a card to a teacher from years ago about how they helped you out in life. Buy gas for that young punk kid at the gas station and tell him you remember what it was like being young and grinding. Mow your neighbors lawn or take a coworkers car to get washed and vacuumed. Tell a mom she is doing a great job raising her kids… whatever it is- take time to invest in someone and realize that this is important.
Just for once, at least once a day stop and focus on someone else. Forget about what you are chasing… and maybe you are chasing money, or God, or the american dream or Jesus, or a wife or being used by the Holy Spirit… whatever it is- don’t forget to make a difference big or small in others lives. Trust me, in the long run that will mean more than gold, money, prestige, security or youthful and lustful desires… and it actually is at the heart of the gospel.
Luke 4:17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:
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“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free,
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to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
Jesus when handed the scroll, out of all the scriptures he could have read… he did not read about being a ruling king, an eternal just God, a Jealous God, a Messiah, the beginning and the end…
He talked about serving the least of these. Take time this week to be like Jesus.
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Monday Jun 20, 2022
Monday Jun 20, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
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John 2:13-19 Jesus Goes off!
it was passover, people traveled from all over, they couldn’t take animals with them. It was packed, it was like the one time a year you have a huge blowout sale… it was black friday… you made most of your money that time of year.
ANIMALS EVERYWHERE…
FECES EVERYWHERE…
STRAW EVERYWHERE…
PEOPLE EVERYWHERE… it was loud, people bartering, people arguing…
So Jesus goes off… he drives out those selling… this was no small feat!
The outer court was where the non-Jews would worship, the Gentiles. But how could they worship with all the distractions…
Rather than giving a space for those who did not yet know Jesus or who were knew in the faith… they actually cut them out of the picture… they forgot about what the outer court stood for.
So lets be Clear: The buying and selling of animals started out as a good thing. A service for those who came to worship. (a service)
But in time the “BOTTOM LINE” became more important. Now it was how much can we sell, how much can we make, what are all the ways we can make money (1st off we exchange money at a higher rate, then we offer all types of sacrifices, then we raise the price of sacrifices, and now we move the gentiles out of their spot for worship and we expand)
The sellers made money, the money exchangers made money and the pharisees took a cut from both.
*How many animals were sacrifice? Josephus the Jewish historian tells us 256,500 sacrifices… thats a lot of
But lets hold on here for a second…
Where is the temple now?
1 Cor. 6:18-20 18Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a man can commit is outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.…
Do you have God’s Righteous Anger for worship for yourself?
But do you have it for others? Remember this courtyard was for those who were not yet in Gods family… they were not Jews.
? What went on in that courtyard for the gentiles?
This is where many times gentiles would come to hear about the God of the Jews… translation: where they would come to hear about Jesus/salvation in our day and age.
So the real question is this: Are there things in your temple (in your life) that are keeping people from seeing Jesus, from experiencing Jesus. Do you have a righteous anger to get rid of the things that might be keeping other from knowing Jesus.
Ask God to deal with those in your heart so you can allow others the intense joy and fullness of coming to Christ and worshiping him.
Friday Jun 17, 2022
Friday Jun 17, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
Brought to you by wellbuiltbody.com Gym Apparel for men and women that rocks and shocks and ain’t for everybody - but just might be for you. wellbuiltbody.com
Venus Williams, Barry Manilow, Amari Cooper, Greg Kinnear and of course Olga Khokhlova was a Ukrainian ballet dancer
Its my birthday… Guess what? I share it with another famous person…ok, not that I am famous- but anyway.
Jesus was born today… say what? You thought it was December 25th? no no no no… that is just the date the tradition was picked up by the catholic church… check this out.
According to the newspaper, Australian stargazer Dave Reneke used complex computer software to chart the exact positions of all celestial bodies and map the night sky as it would have appeared over the Holy Land more than 2,000 years ago. He discovered that a bright star really did appear over Bethlehem 2,000 years ago - but pinpointed the date of Christ's birth as June 17, and not December 25.
Scientists claim the Christmas star was most likely a magnificent conjunction of the planets Venus and Jupiter, which were so close together they would have shone unusually brightly as a single 'beacon of light' which appeared suddenly...
Mr Reneke says the wise men probably interpreted it as the sign they had been waiting for, and they followed the ‘star’ to Christ’s birthplace in a stable in Bethlehem, as described in the Bible.
Generally accepted research has placed the nativity to somewhere between 3BC and 1AD.
Using the St Matthew’s Gospel as a reference point, Mr Reneke pinpointed the planetary conjunction, which appeared in the constellation of Leo, to the exact date of June 17 in the year 2BC.
Mr Reneke, who is editor of Sky and Space magazine, said: ‘We have software that can recreate the night sky exactly as it was at any point in the last several thousand years.
‘Venus and Jupiter became very close in the the year 2BC and they would have appeared to be one bright beacon of light.
‘We are not saying this was definitely the Christmas star - but it is the strongest explanation for it of any I have seen so far.
‘Astronomy is such a precise science, we can plot exactly where the planets were, and it certainly seems this is the fabled Christmas star. There’s no other explanation that so closely matches the facts we have from the time.
‘This could well have been what the three wise men interpreted as a sign. They could easily have mistaken it for one bright star.’
Titus 2:1-3 But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine. Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness. Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good,
Sober minded: free from others negative influences. Free from life dominating things.
What does this mean? NO PEER PRESSURE… I am so glad I have never been a slave to peer pressure… all I know is that my life was like this growing up…
My parents loved me- and so I really didn’t give a flipping nickel what you thought of me
Then my wife loved me- and so I really didn’t give a flipping nickel what you thought of me
Ultimately I understood how much Jesus loved me - and so I really didn’t give a flipping nickel what you thought of me
Do not be that person that looks back later in life and says “why did I let them influence me”.
Dignified - sober and revered for good judgement - Do the right thing even when no one is watching.
The preacher who bought a burger and fries, paid for it and got to much back. he went up to the cashier and said “you gave me to much money back… the guy said “I know, I wanted to see what you would do Preacher”.
Self controlled - this is more than just living in the middle of the road, but rather looking like a person of balance in the eyes of God. You are not swayed by one opinion or one doctrine of the bible or one cause or one this or that… you dominate the middle ground of Gods word in all things.
Sound in faith love and steadfastness - you function in all these areas holistically and with in the needs of others. What does that mean? you are not a person who is very verbal or affectionate with love- but you are sound… you know your kids, your spouse need that so you do it outside of your comfort zone, you do it anyway, because it is what they need. You are sound! Solid, you don’t flinch when it comes to what they need even if it makes you feel uncomfortable! and by the way that word there “steadfastness” means perseverance. You keep doing it, because it is right!
Thursday Jun 16, 2022
Thursday Jun 16, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
Brought to you by wellbuiltbody.com Gym Apparel for men and women that rocks and shocks and ain’t for everybody - but just might be for you. wellbuiltbody.com
John 2 First miracle water in to wine…
Jesus took a jar that was used for the outward of man… the cleansing of your body and used that clay jar for something it was not supposed to be used for. He was counter culture in what he taught, and how he taught.
John’s mentioning of this detail is almost certainly meant to underscore the redemptive-historical transition from the recurring ceremonial requirements of the old covenant (Ex. 30:17–21) to the once-for-all washing of baptism in the new covenant (Rom. 6:3–5; Titus 3:5–6). This is Jesus’ way of saying, “You won’t be needing that anymore, for the new wine of the new covenant is here”
*And noting another possible allusion, John has gone out of his way to tell us that the wine was drawn from stone jars. In this way, Jesus’ miracle involves bringing forth wine from rock, revealing Christ to be the true and better Moses, for Moses brought forth only water from the rock (Ex. 17:6; Num. 20:8). Isn’t this pattern in keeping with what John has already told us? The water of the law was given through Moses- he struck the rock
Moses gave the law from the rock- stone tablets
*JESUS GIVES LIFE, GRACE, NEW WINE OUT OF THE ROCK!
Moses brought the 10 commandments. the law, it was work… it takes work to make wine… it didn’t take work for jesus to make wine, because he saved us by his grace. Grace is the secret weapon to a fruitful life… when you do what Jesus says, and you understand his grace you see how he is the great life hack.
but the wine of grace came through Jesus Christ (John 1:17).
Why did he do it? To reveal his glory. its right there in the text. God will take our mundane and make him look good.
God takes our brokenness, our uncleanliness, our emptiness, our stone hearts and does the miraculous in order to make him look good, in order to Glorify the father.
So what do we see in the whole story?
God takes our hard hearts
He sees our need, he calls us
We obey him
he does the miraculous
and God looks good… Perfect. That is exactly what life is about.
They told the bride and groom you saved the best till last….
I BELIEVE THE BEST IS YET TO COME - in my life, in your life- regardless of age! If you do what Jesus says…
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
Brought to you by wellbuiltbody.com Gym Apparel for men and women that rocks and shocks and ain’t for everybody - but just might be for you. wellbuiltbody.com
John 2 First miracle water in to wine…
In todays world it can take between 3-4 years to plant and harvest a worthy crop of grapes. Then 8-12 weeks to bottle them and then another couple of years to age and properly embody a great wine in that bottle… all told a great wine could take up to 5-8 years… and even longer depending on how long you would like to keep the bottle and maintain it until you want to drink it… but not with Jesus…
Not only does jesus take our mundane, the water from the stone pots that everyone has had their dirty hands in, and is just filthy… not only does he take that and make wine, but he does not need 8 years… he needs nothing more than the time it takes to be asked.
Great wine takes a long time: Jesus can take the mundane and common and immediately make it amazing. Like with your life… just do what he says! Remember what his Mom “mary” said to the servants… just do whatever he says- and boom we cut out the middle man, the work, the labor, the money the dependence in circumstances like weather etc…
You want to change fast? - obedience will get you into the new wine!
Another amazing thing we see here is that
Jesus shows his power over the smallest details. He turned the common and its basic structure into a new molecular cellular transformation.
If you pick grapes, crush them, ferment them and bottle them you get wine over time.
If you take water, shake it up, bottle it and give it time, you still get water. if you give it years… you still get water. But God takes water… and changes it miraculously.
Dr. Cliff Lewis explains:
At a molecular level, the water, basically hydrogen and oxygen, was changed into wine that contains sugars, yeast, and water, which contain carbon and nitrogen along with oxygen and hydrogen. Thus, by changing water into wine Jesus demonstrated his authority over even the atomic structure of atoms by commanding oxygen and hydrogen atoms to disassemble and reform into other atoms of different configurations.
What small details in your life under the masters touch could be transformed… even the minute detail, the smallest of things that seem easily overlooked? Does not matter to the master - Just do what he says and watch him transform all areas of your life, even the smallest!
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
Brought to you by wellbuiltbody.com Gym Apparel for men and women that rocks and shocks and ain’t for everybody - but just might be for you. wellbuiltbody.com
John 2 First miracle water in to wine…
They are out of wine?
So? This was not like being out of cake at your wedding…
Remembered for not even being able to provide for the
wedding let alone the bride and her future.
Huge embarrassment for the groom and the couple.
* The brides family could take the grooms family to court - How was the wedding… oh it was a little weird… they ran out of cake and the groom was served a subpoena from the brides father.
He does this on the 3rd day… John makes mention of this for a very obvious reason. The 3rd day…
New birth New life New transitions
3rd day God reveals the to Abraham what he has provided
3rd day God meets his people at Mt. Sinai
3rd day God revives his fallen people
3rd day God brings Jonah from the pit
3rd day God creates plants to bring forth wine
3rd day that Jesus raised from the dead
Whenever you hear “on the 3rd day”… somethings about to go down.
Mary asks Jesus “do something” Jesus says now is not the time to announce I am the Messiah.
This seems weird right?
Cana is about 2 miles north of Nazereth- that is where Jesus is from. That is where Mary had to live out her life as the woman who got pregnant before her wedding…
Maybe she is saying… prove to everyone that you are the son of God and that I am not crazy.
HE SAYS MY TIME HAS NOT YET COME…
BUT IN John 17… just before he is crucified in the garden he says “Father now my time has come”.
The cross- and the resurrection is why I am here!
6 stone pots
most likely a priest or higher up religious leader
The number 6 speaks of man and incompleteness.
The pots are dirty…i.e. sinful
Out of the stone pots a new wine comes out
OUT OF THE STONE COMES A NEW WINE…
Monday Jun 13, 2022
Monday Jun 13, 2022
Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at
Brought to you by wellbuiltbody.com Gym Apparel for men and women that rocks and shocks and ain’t for everybody - but just might be for you. wellbuiltbody.com
There’s a never ending reel of embarrassing moments in my wedding career.
- no matches for the unity candle
- Wedding at the local saloon - music on the jukebox
Getting the bartender in trouble for charging me
- a bride literally being sewn and safety pinned into her dress… only to have it slowly come apart during the ceremony
- Guns and Roses song by long hair dude
- A Groomsman passing out - OUT!
- wedding in Kansas in July out in the middle of the wheat field… standing there completely undressed…
THE FIRST MIRACLE
ONLY 5 DISCIPLES AT THIS TIME - AND IT CEMENTED IN THEIR MINDS WHO HE WAS.
John 2 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. 3 And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.”
4 Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come.”
5 His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.”
6 Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece. 7 Jesus said to them, “Fill the waterpots with water.” And they filled them up to the brim. 8 And He said to them, “Draw some out now, and take it to the master of the feast.” And they took it. 9 When the master of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom. 10 And he said to him, “Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!”
11 This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested His glory; and His disciples believed in Him.
Water into wine
WINE IN SCRIPTURE:
Wine represents the blood of Jesus that cleanses us from sin. The old wine took work…. works based, the new wine was based on Christ work alone.
It also represents joy!
They are out of wine?
Could get taken to court
Remembered for not even being able to provide for the
wedding let alone the bride and her future.
Huge embarrassment for the groom and the couple.
6 stone pots
most likely a priest or higher up religious leader
The number 6 speaks of man and incompleteness.
The pots are dirty…i.e. sinful
Out of the stone pots a new wine comes out
OUT OF THE STONE COMES A NEW WINE…
So Jesus goes a little overboard…
180 gallons of the best wine - 180? Thats 908 standard-sized bottles of wine.
They were most likely able to sell this and live off of it for a very long time!
Friday Jun 10, 2022